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World in Action Season 13 Episodes

38 Episodes 1976 - 1977

Episode 1

Unemployment - Who Cares?

30 mins

Unemployment has now risen to the notable 1 million mark and this investigation shows the detrimental effect it can have on those people who loose their job.

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Episode 2

Nuts &Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma

30 mins

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Episode 3

A School of Thought

30 mins

Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.

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Episode 4

Mr Cork Examines the Books

30 mins

An ordinary accountant is given the theoretical task of being Chancellor of the Exchequer and giving his take on the situation.

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Episode 5

Campaigning by Numbers

30 mins

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Episode 6

Yesterday's Truants

30 mins

Follow up programme to one five years previous to find out what happened to some persistent school truants.

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Episode 7

Living Dangerously

30 mins

The effects of the chemical Dioxin after a factory explosion in Italy.

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Episode 8

The Killing of Uganda

30 mins

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Episode 9

The National Party

30 mins

Following the racial violence in Blackburn,looks at the rise of the extreme right wing.

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Episode 10

The Long Arm of the Dina

30 mins

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Episode 11

The Lawbreakers

30 mins

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Episode 12

Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour

30 mins

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Episode 13

Mr Opie Brings Bad News

30 mins

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Episode 14

Doctor's Orders

30 mins

Doctors complain that they are being put under pressure by both patients and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe certain drugs.

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Episode 16

The Militants

30 mins

Investigates why the Labour Party is allowing a group within to produce a newspaper like 'The Militant'.

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Episode 17

Waiting for Merlyn

30 mins

An investigation into the Home Secretary's decision to declare two men as a threat to British Security and his moves to have them deported.

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Episode 18

The Road to Amsterdam

30 mins

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Episode 19

The Police Tapes

30 mins

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Episode 21

Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow

30 mins

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Episode 22

Do You Take This Man?

30 mins

A report on the growing number of Asian girls in the UK who are rejecting the traditional arranged marriage to someone they do not know.

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Episode 23

From Death Row-To Downing St

30 mins

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Episode 24

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us

30 mins

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Episode 25

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 1

30 mins

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Episode 26

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 2

30 mins

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Episode 27

The Plane Makers

30 mins

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Episode 28

The Prison Children

30 mins

It is against the law in the UK to put children into prison, so how did 4000 under 17-year-olds come to spend time behind bars?

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Episode 29

All Work and Low Pay

30 mins

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Episode 30

What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know

30 mins

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Episode 31

The Man Who Went Too Far

30 mins

Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.

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Episode 32

Casualties of the Cuts

30 mins

Looking at two hospitals that may have to close down,and another who's budget is not coping with the demand of an increasing population.

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Episode 33

Without Limit of Time

30 mins

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Episode 34

My Years with Amin

30 mins

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Episode 35

Starting on the Dole

30 mins

With the continuing rise in youth unemployment, follows two Liverpool teenagers as they look for work and examines the validity of government job creation schemes.

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Episode 36

The Very Public Death of Enrico Sidoli

30 mins

In July of the previous year Enrico was beaten up in a London swimming pool by three youths and held under water,he died days later of injuries. Apart from one girl, nobody there appears to have noticed anything.

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Episode 37

Jack's Last Stand

30 mins

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Episode 38

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 1

30 mins

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Episode 39

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 2

30 mins

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Episode 40

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 3

30 mins

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